Dr. Brian Davis, professor and chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been named a fellow of the International Society of Biomechanics (ISB). The organization’s
first class of fellows was announced on July 15 at the 25th Congress of the International Society of Biomechanics in Glasgow, UK.
According to its website, "the purpose of awarding Fellowships is to recognize distinguished professional achievement in biomechanics.”
Before coming to The University of Akron in 2012, Dr. Davis was the Vice President and director of the Medical Device Development Center at Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron (ABIA). He holds both a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and a master’s degree in medicine (biomedical engineering) from th
e University of Cape Town (South Africa), and a Ph.D. from Penn State University. He had a staff-level appointment at the Cleveland Clinic from 1992 to 2010. During that time he was the first Cleveland Clinic investigator to receive a peer-reviewed grant from NASA headquarters on the topic of foot biomechanics in response to impact loading (1996-1998), the first investigator to obtain funding from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, and the first to obtain a four-year grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.